Volume 27, No 7, Jul 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 7, July 2017: 847-848

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Tissue-resident memory T cells live off the fat of the land

J Michael Stolley¹ and David Masopust¹

¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA Correspondence: David Masopust,(masopust@umn.edu)

The consumption of exogenous free fatty acids by tissue-resident memory T (Trm) cells is critical for their long-term survival and antiviral function, and appears to be a conserved feature of Trm cells in both mouse and man, a recent paper published in Nature demonstrates.

10.1038/cr.2017.49

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